Loot Alert addon broke after update - how to fix?

SolidBeast · April 22

Hey all,
it seems the original developer is no longer playing the game and does not want to be pestered with messages. However, this was my absolute favorite add-on. I am no coder and I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers on how to look into what made the add-on not work? It seems to have broken with update 49. But prior to this update, we already had to use a fixed version that is linked in the comments on the add-on page.

In-game, the dependencies listed are
LibAddonMenu-2.0
LibCustomMenu
LibScroll

I've made sure that everything other than the main add-on (see above for the link to the fixed version that is not meant to be updated) is up to date. The menu for the add-on shows up in the game and you can tick everything fine, it shows no errors, but it just never executes the alerts themselves. Nothing happens at all in gameplay.

Any help would be appreciated. My game experience is diminished without Loot Alert.

SolidBeast · April 22

UPDATE: I believe I fixed it for now! Note, the first thing I did may or may not help, so try point 2 before trying point 1. But this is what I did.

1. I noticed that it still had a LibStub folder so I used the Delete LibStub utility to remove it as per the instructions.

2. The game was showing a LUA error regarding line 941, so I commented it out. To do so, open LootAlert.lua and add two dashes to line 941 or the following line:

SlashCommandAutoComplete:InvalidateSlashCommandCache()

the result should look like this:

--SlashCommandAutoComplete:InvalidateSlashCommandCache()

If you have the same version of the addon as I do (Baertram's fixed version from the comments), you will notice there's already an older version of that line that's been commented out. After I did this and reloaded my UI ingame, the addon started working as normal again. So my guess is the InvalidateSlashCommandCache line should be changed into something new, but I have not figured out what, and the addon works for me. If anyone has any further things to add, please do so, or I will correct myself should I find out what the proper version of this line should be, if there indeed is one.

I am not a coder, use my fixes at your own risk.

Dack_Janiels · April 22

SolidBeast wrote: »
UPDATE: I believe I fixed it for now! Note, the first thing I did may or may not help, so try point 2 before trying point 1. But this is what I did.

1. I noticed that it still had a LibStub folder so I used the Delete LibStub utility to remove it as per the instructions.

2. The game was showing a LUA error regarding line 941, so I commented it out. To do so, open LootAlert.lua and add two dashes to line 941 or the following line:
SlashCommandAutoComplete:InvalidateSlashCommandCache()
the result should look like this:
--SlashCommandAutoComplete:InvalidateSlashCommandCache()
If you have the same version of the addon as I do (Baertram's fixed version from the comments), you will notice there's already an older version of that line that's been commented out. After I did this and reloaded my UI ingame, the addon started working as normal again. So my guess is the InvalidateSlashCommandCache line should be changed into something new, but I have not figured out what, and the addon works for me. If anyone has any further things to add, please do so, or I will correct myself should I find out what the proper version of this line should be, if there indeed is one.

I am not a coder, use my fixes at your own risk.

Here is how I did it in LuiExtended, ZOS changed the method during a refactor.

https://github.com/DakJaniels/LuiExtended/blob/master/LuiExtended/modules/SlashCommands/SlashCommands.lua#L84-L87

SolidBeast · April 23

Dack_Janiels wrote: »

Here is how I did it in LuiExtended, ZOS changed the method during a refactor.

https://github.com/DakJaniels/LuiExtended/blob/master/LuiExtended/modules/SlashCommands/SlashCommands.lua#L84-L87

Hey, thanks for your contribution! I do not understand, however, from your whole batch of code, which lines I would need to input in the file in order to restore whatever functionality was removed when I commented out the line on my end. Sorry, I am not a coder. Could you dumb it down for me?

Techwolf_Lupindo · April 23

Take a look at Loot Log. Does the same as Loot Alert plus more. It has nice features for group play. Like /lt to post all collected gear to share. Handy at the end of a trial run to share gear.

SolidBeast · April 23

Techwolf_Lupindo wrote: »

Take a look at Loot Log. Does the same as Loot Alert plus more. It has nice features for group play. Like /lt to post all collected gear to share. Handy at the end of a trial run to share gear.

Appreciate the mention, but I don't see where this does the same thing as Loot Alert, which gives me pleasing messages across the screen with accompanying sounds and makes my character emote for specific items I've selected, which cracks me up. Loot Alert is very much a flavor addon to me. I don't really need an addon that logs loot to chat or a separate window, but maybe someone else will appreciate it. I will give you that the one-click link loot to the party is a useful feature. But I've found that, most of the time, people will whisper when they want something because of the addons they're using to see what I looted.

Baertram · June 8

@SolidBeast
I'm working on a fix for that "Loot Alert" addon (there are also other wrong code lines and errors in the older version which I just noticed), and will release the link to the addon comments again.

LootAlert v1.0.4 - Should be working with API101050 Udate 50 2026-06-08

Fixes:
-Fixed error throw about AutoCompletion cache reset
-Fixed name in Watchlist not using correct itemId
-Bring loot alert watchlist window to the front if opened from settings menu
-Other global variables fixed in LAM settings (which had unrelated global names)
-Other fixes with local and global variables in lua files
-Added German translations

SolidBeast · June 8

@Baertram thank you so much for taking the time to fix this addon! I appreciate it greatly. I was really just operating blind with my fixes and, while the addon did work again, it's great to have a clean updated version now. You're the best!